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USS Penobscot (ATA-188)
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 USS ATA-188 (1944 - 1948)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down, 11 September 1944, as Rescue Ocean Tug (ATR-115) at Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, TX.
  • Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-188), 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 12 October 1944
  • Commissioned USS ATA-188, 12 December 1944
  • Named, USS Penobscot (ATA-188), 16 July 1948
  • Decommissioned in 1971
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 February 1975
  • Sold, by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) to American Offshore Inc. ,St. Louis (Sources: NVR and Tugs of the World 1994/1995 page 20)
  • Renamed American Patriot, International Radio Call Sign (WTE8457)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 534 t.
    Length 143'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 13'
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 45
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel-electric engines, single screw
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    Penobscot 53k USS Penobscot (ATA-188) underway, date and location unknown. Submitted by Harry Jaeger
    to NAFTS
    National Association
    of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Nipmuc 101k USS Penobscot (ATA-188) moored inboard of USS Nipmuc (ATF-157), at Newport R.I., date unknown. ©Richard Leonhardt
    Chepanoc 86k USS Penobscot (ATA-188), USS Koelsch (DE-1049) and USS Van Voorhis (DE-1028) moored to the pier at Naval Station Newport, R.I. in November 1967. The Harbor Tug Chepanoc (YTM-381) is underway. ©Richard Leonhardt
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